Lucidity Challenge 43: Winner - drd!

Just posting to say the Creation team has decided on sea serpents for the team task. If you consider that a dragon, our next choice would be Titan.

We’ve also decided on “Create a new dinosaur” for the Creation Advantage.

Also… since I’ve done my personal goal, my new goal will be to play “Splatoon
… because it looks super fun to play in a dream. :happy:
SQUIDS!

Task 2 Team Dreams

I’ll just post this here to make it nice and clean. The team tasks start now.

The creation team is going to be hunting sea serpents. Are you brave enough to go out on the water with just your team mates? As this is a creation team task, you could just summon the creature if you wish, or you could bring one to life from the pages of a book. However you find it, you and your team mate will definitely have a bit of work to bring the leviathans down.

Team Advantage

In this week’s team advantage, the creation team has decided to create a new dinosaur. There’s several ways to do this, though I like the idea of jumbling up some fossils and then animating them to see what you get :razz:. However, the only two requirements are that you make a completely new type of dinosaur (it’s ok if you mix features from existing ones) and you bring it to life.

The investigation team will be interviewing a dragon. This encompasses all types of dragons. Bummed out that you can’t turn into one yourself? Well, no one said you had to do the interview in human form. After all, you might just need to be a dragon to understand what it’s saying :wink:

The transformation team will be turning in to mer-creatures. The Little Mermaid not your thing? Then maybe you should consider a mer-dragon. Ok, that’d actually be pretty friggin sweet. You and your team mate don’t need to turn into the same thing, as long as you’re both mer-creatures (i.e. lower half of body is that of a sea creature).

@ian1: yay first animal points!

@Hodge_Podge: you’re on the score sheet now! Get in there and help your team!

@Siiw: I added the lucid bonus for Task 1. Also, to answer your question about the animal task, since you did not incubate nor were you even aware of the task to have it in the back of your mind, I cannot take those points. Don’t worry, though, I did get your lucid moment, and the task is still young :content:. Btw, if your long LD did include the things from the animal task, please let me know.

@HeHu: on the bright side you did actually summon something from a movie, even if it did turn into a naked lion. Also, I wouldn’t take the topicat thing too seriously, that was a joke between Thorn and me :razz:

@En’enra: the monthly Quest is a bit more subjective and personal than the LC. If you feel like you completed it, then you did :content:. Congratulations, as that also means you get your wings!

@HeadInTheClouds: O.o I’m not sure what I read in that second dream of yours, but I think I liked it. I just realized I did not respond in the first dream with the werewolf. Yes, it counts as a movie animal. However, a werewolf in moonlight is not an animal in its natural habitat. If I had to stretch, I might say a foggy forest at night, but even then a werewolf is a fictional creature, not an exotic animal. Try again!

@Scipio: wow. much lucid. so chain. wow.

@Oleg: sorry to hear that :sad:. Your name has been removed from the score board.

@Starry: 20pts headin’ your way.

@Wyven: new task locked and loaded. Now, a real Clevern would combine this with the TF team’s challenge. MER-SQUIDS!!!

Scores are updated.

And with 5 days left in Task 2, Scipio Xaos is maintaining his lead with his continued LDs and strong task performance. drd is still going strong, but En’enra’s Quest-winning dream allowed her to slip past him into second place with a healthy lead. This means Wyvern’s been knocked out of the top three.

Will Wyvern come back for revenge? Will En’enra make a run for first? Will drd blow them out of the water? Will someone else come in with the LD to end all LDs and skip over all of them? Will Batman and Robin escape the Joker’s dastardly-designed death trap?! Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Team Participation*
Transformation: 8.3% participation (1 task per member)
Investigation: 3.6% participation (.4 tasks per member)
Creation: 0 participation (0 tasks per member)

*Participation rates calculated by the number of tasks completed by a team divided by the number of members on the team. Average number of tasks is then divided by total number of tasks. 100% participation is 12 tasks per member in Tasks 2-4

Another lucid moment last night, unfortunately, the only animals involved were bugs and maggots. There were no animals in the long LD.

Does that count as hearing music and playing an instrument?

Two extremely short lucid moments last night. Link. Nothing task related.

I found my pet in a ND last night.

Here’s an ND in which I become an animal (Sonic), have a conversation with an animal (Tails), and summon an animal from a TV show (Daggett from The Angry Beavers), as well as a short LD with no tasks accomplished.

Rhewin: Hopefully many more to come. :wink:

That being said, in a chat with Koharo last night I realized something I’d really like to do for my second personal goal. I’d like to fly into space and gaze back at the planet (maybe Earth, maybe not) that I came from. I know I went to “space” in that LD I submitted recently, but that’s not really what I’m going for.

So… new Personal Task: fly straight up into space and gaze back at the planet below.

I had an ND of taming a gigantic dog. Not sure it counts for anything? I came across two enormous dogs that looked like golden retrievers. They were almost as tall as me! I placed my hand out to one of the dogs and walked slowly towards it. I gently pet him and eventually he warms up to me. It was very vivid. Stroking his fur seemed so real. I sat down and he curled up by my legs and fell asleep to me running my fingers through his fur. :content:

Had a pretty vivid ND here where I effectively became a Minotaur by possessing it’s body.

Another night of strange dreams for me. I had a long LD. I’ve got a lot to write, so I put the LD in the spoiler tag.

[spoiler]My mind kept playing tricks on me, making me think I’d already completed some tasks. Plus, I had a dream earlier in the night that all of Task 2 had been changed.I looked around for a transformation team member, but only found my cat and my mother in some weird yoga meditating pose.

After that strangeness, I went back to my room and tried to transform into a merman, but it wasn’t working. I couldn’t remember any tasks, but then my Native American Flute appeared and I remembered task 1. I took the flute out and played it, trying to also cause some kind of physical phenomenon for the other part of task 1. In the dream, I thought everything was normal, but looking back on it, I think I succeeded. First off, when I played towards something, like the wind chimes or Chinese lanterns hanging in my bedroom :rc: , they would blow around like they were in the wind. Second, I was able to cause a little shadow-like ball to pop out of the shadow of me playing my flute. Third, I was able to see some kind of wavy distortion right around my nose area, where according to dream logic, was my breath being displaced from playing the flute. By the way, at first the flute wasn’t playing right, but sometime around the shadow ball shooting out of the shadow flute, it started to sound good.

I also conquered an issue I have with windows. Normally the screen gets in my way, but this time I slid it across like I do with the normal part of the window and was able to go through my window outside to the pool. I saw a geese, but I don’t think that counts for anything. Then, an odd looking bird came flying through the sky,as did a blue, green, and golden fish with a large mouth. It landed in the pool and started to try and eat me while I was attempting the merman transformation again. I grabbed it and flung it around. The bird flew by and started telling me “that this fish is crazy. I mean, have you ever seen a fish try to eat a bird before?” I swung the fish towards the bird and it bit down on it, almost snapping it in half. Then I threw it over the fence where there was no more water. However, the fish jumped back over the fence and was trying to eat me again. Apparently it was a super jumper fish.[/spoiler]

I just remembered as I was typing this post up that I had a ND, where I was on a camping/hiking trail and my cat decided to run up to a large pack of a bear/wolf pack. I think it was bears at one point, and then changed to wolves. Does this count for meeting an exotic animal in its habitat?

So, yeah, a lot of strangeness from last night. I honestly didn’t even realize how odd a bird talking to me was until I wrote it down here. I also didn’t mean to kill the bird, but it happened.

Also, no tasks, but just wanted to share. There was a treasure hunt going on in one of my NDs, which led to a hotel where Abed from Community was dressed in white robes and singing some odd song that was supposed to be a hint. I had this dream I think twice last night and the second time I ganged up with him, Shirley, and possibly someone else to screw everyone else out of the competition.

Here is a long LD in which I communicate telepathically with an animal (how convenient that I visualize LD4all members based on avatars :tongue:). I know I already did this Task task, but I now have the lucid bonus for it.

Rhewin, I’m totally mad that you added “Become lucid” as a Quest condition, as I explored pyramids in an ND. :grrr: How dare the Quests on a lucid dreaming site require lucidity…!

Had 3 lds chained together for a long length. Flipped some cars and flew. Looked for my cat and failed. No subtasks completed

6/29/14
-Played air guitar, feeling these strange vibrations on my fingers and torso every time I’d strum. Wasn’t a lucid dream though…

@Letaali: yep, that counts :content:. That was a normal dream, yes?

@Scipio: fly away

@HeadInTheClouds: if you consider a bear/wolf to be exotic, I can count that. Points for the music task as well.

@Koharo: air or not, that’s still an instrument!

Scores are updated

Thorn has now made his way into the top three and is tied with En’enra for second. HeadInTheClouds is only 15 points behind in third.

I don’t have time to completely calculate the team participation rate at the moment. I do know that the Transformation Team is still leading, but Creation is on the board now.

Yes, it was a normal dream. Also heard a guitar being played and some music from a radio after that dream, so those points should be fairly well covered.

I had a medium LD or rather a string of three short ones. Will post after work, no tasks done.

Another short, rather unimpressive LD here. No tasks accomplished as I heard the music after I lost lucidity.

I had a long ld chained with 7-8 long DEILDs for a VERY long combined length. I think the initial ld may have been my longest ld. I talked to my cat, turned my mom into a dog, and talked to her as well. I also completed my personal goal for sure this time.